Sunday, 8 November 2015

What is the Need of Testing Your Applications or Products?

Product or
application testing is an important part of launching it in the real world for
the general public to use. Although it is not the core section of developing
the product, it has its own importance nevertheless. So you ask why you need to
test your application or product? Well, we will take the opportunity of this
article to let you know just that.

The most
important reason for testing your application or product is to make it popular.
Yes! You read it right. People do not have time for products which are flawed
and will not think twice before discarding it. You must remember that in the
age of technology, there will be thousands of products which does nearly the
same job as yours does. So if you want people to use your application, you have
to provide them with a bug free application which can be used by them as
smoothly as silk. But for making the necessary modifications to make it free of
bugs, you need to first detect them, which you can do by testing the
application or product under various conditions.

The second
reason for testing applications is to check the compatibility and durability of
the same. The world is filled with various devices which have different
operating systems and hardware configurations. You have to check that the app
you have developed should be compatible with as many operating systems and
hardware configuration as possible so that you can grab the attention of
various groups of end users and provide your application to them. You will also
have to make sure that your product works pretty well under stressful
conditions, which you can do by testing only. If your product caves in under
excess pressure and/or takes a huge time to recover back to normal work ability,
it is likely to be avoided by people at large. You have to test these criteria
by software testing methods and make modifications to make it stronger.

The third reason
for testing the application or product is to see how the individual component
of the developed product works and how they work when integrated together. How
well does the various software modules or codes collaborate with each other. It
may be so that they work pretty well individually, but when combined together,
they show some problems which can be solved by a little tweaking.

The fourth need
for testing the application is to see whether the modifications that you have
made, strengthens or weakens the product or application as a whole. Comparison
testing comprises of an important part of testing he produced which tests the
application against the older version and shows you the weak points or strong
points of the new application. This helps you to further strengthen the product
by modifying the weakness into strengths. It also helps you to see the
advancements you have made since the last versions of the product.

So now you know
why it is an absolute must to test your product or application before launching
it in the real world for public use. The best way to keep the load off is to
begin testing from the early designing phase and not waiting for the completion
of the software.